This is a man who calls the Palestinian Authority ‘collaborators’, so there’s so reason to think that he would have any sympathy for Israelis murdered by his heroes in Hamas or that he actually wants the peace negotiations to succeed.

Its like those thermometers they have outside schools or churches to show how many dollars have been collected and still have to be collected to reach the goal. How many Israelis will have to die to justify Obama’s Nobel Prize?

Except this is an unattainable goal.

Since Hamas has taken responsibility, I hope Zahal makes them pay the price. Starting with Haniyah and friends.

Melanie Phillips has authored a book ‘The World Turned Upside Down’, surely this man’s tweets prove her salient point. When oh when will the western leaders and intelligentsia wake up that these Islamists do not want peace? It is terrible how these people who have murderous intent are not called to book. His tweets are inaccurate, these innocent Israeli civillians were not being used as human shields, they were just Jews who had returned to live in the Promised Land to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. However this man and those who commit cold blooded murder will have to give an account to the Creator who will consign them to an eternity in hell.

I hope that someone is keeping these tweets for use against the oh-so-liberal-minded CiF, as an example of the sort of people they ask to write for them.

benorr, I am afraid I agree with you that softly softly can never work with an entity which perceives any kindness or compromise as weakness. It didn’t in Gaza when Israel withdrew and the Islamist thugs took it as a green light to kidnap Gilad Shalit and launch war against Israeli civilians.

One cannot treat with such people as one might with others who are civilised and trustworthy – there are no points of shared values, or contact with humans who are even vaguely like-minded. These are like entities from another planet.

They themselves said it – that they love death more than life. They destroy their children’s futures by teaching them likewise. They will not survive. If they value their children so little their society will not survive either.

The question is whether it will poison itself with its own hatred before it is destroyed because it goes one step too far.

Our friend Saint Ali Abunimah of Al-Taqiyya Merchants and other Apologists for Hamas has been at it on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme, aided and abetted by a dimwitted reporter who failed to put him on the spot – see below.

He was bemoaning that Hamas hadn’t be invited to the party in the US and wailed that the door had been slammed in Hamas’ face again and again. Embedded in his whingeing was that Hamas was offering only a temporary cease fire. Dimwitted interviewer didn’t ask why not a permanent one, and how did this new load of ordure tie in with the statement in the Hamas Charter that peace talks with Israel are a waste of time.

Saint Ali was in full-blown victim mode, with “poor us” voice to match – the dimwitted interviewer must either have felt sorry for him or was toeing the usual BBC line because he wasn’t questioned either about his excuses for Hamas’ murders of the people near Hebron – he said that they were frustrated.